There are two characters named Captain Marvel, one owned by DC and one by Marvel. DC's Character is much older and the mentioned TV show was based on him. They relatively recently changed the name of the character to Shazam though to prevent confusion with Marvel Comic.
I remember I used to watch this guy called "The Angry Nintendo Nerd"... and then one day I found the same guys videos but his name was "The Angry Video Game Nerd"... I was like.. I'm quite sure I remember him as "The Angry Nintendo Nerd". There was a song and everything that said it.
I think you're just mis-remembering the part of the theme song that goes "He's the Angry Nintendo Nerd. He's the Angry Atari Sega Nerd." (And because this is the Internet and I don't know how well my jokes fly at 1 am... it's a joke.)
In The Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch used to say "Fly my Pretties. Fly, Fly, Fly!" Now she just says "Fly...Fly, Fly, Fly!" I remember it clearly from when I was a kid and I used to watch it a lot. There's a Wizard of Oz spoof in The Simpsons where Mr. Burns says it and there's even a band called Fly My Pretties.
Probably the funniest example of the Mandela Effect you can pull on somebody is to play Queen's We Are The Champions. The song ends simply with the lyrics "we are the champions" even though many people, myself included, remember it ending with Freddie Mercury stretching out one final "of the wooorld". You can see this occur in James Cordon's Carpool Karaoke with Gwen Stefani, where they all wait in anticipation for the final line that never arrives.
I once saw an episode of Saturday Night Live, with Drew Barrymore hosting, and it had one really funny sketch in a Karaoke bar, but then I saw a rerun years later, and the sketch was totally different. However, I had managed to record the original on VHS and was able to go back and double check. I was right; the sketch had changed. Weird as fuck. Don't ask me how the hell that's even possible....
This is kinda related, but I get deja vu A LOT. Like, I would dream about say something specific happening while driving toward Reading, or something like that. Then, the same exact thing would happen months later in real life. It's like I predicted it or something. It freaks me out sometimes. Anybody else like this?
Well one partial explanation for the Joker and the King Kong ones here for people our age is that our TVs weren't nearly as good back in the day so our brains filled in a lot of the missing information. That dollar bill would've been pretty hazy so if you were expecting to see Jokers face there you would've. And that rock formation did look pretty damn skull like.
I had kind of a reverse-mandela moment. I remember back in the mid 80s when "Aliens" came out... a few years later they showed it on Television and I noticed the scenes with the sentry guns (how could I forget? they were so cool). Of my friends, who were all fellow fans of the movie, I was evidently the only one that saw it. I told them about it the next day on the playground and they all either thought I was lying or somehow mistaken. Evidently TBS or whoever was showing the film on TV got a hold of the director's cut of the film and didn't advertise the fact. Years later when the directors cut was finally released in video, I called all of my friends and said "HA! I was right!" I had managed to remember it correctly and no one else did.
I remembered seeing Darth Vader's ghost in Return of the Jedi looking like he did when he was unmasked - now the DVD's I have, and when I've caught it on TV shows Hayden Christensen
My own personal Mandela effect was Jurassic Park. When I saw it in the theaters and it got to the end and the Trex gets the raptors, I remember seeing the rex actually crash through the building at the end before facing the raptors. When I got the vhs I watched it again and there was no such scene. The rex just shows up behind them. I never understood it and others have claimed they saw the same thing.
I always remembered something from Return of the Jedi, when they attack the Death Star. When the shield is still up, I distinctly remember a few of the fighters don't pull up in time and smash into the shield. Lo and behold, this never happens, yet oddly, there *is* a scene like this in Rogue One.
kev3d I was always sure Palpatine said "Oh I'm afraid your friends are going to have to die", not "oh I'm afraid the deflector shields will be quite operational when your friends arrive" But we are talking about George Lucas in this case, who redoes everything.
Same. i even asked some friends about it and they said they remember me having a life once too ! We used to all do stuff together. i've looked everywhere...i can't find this "life" i once had. i call it... THE WHENDIDI DEFECT.
The best one for me is extremely vivid memories of the start of Disney movies on DVD/VHS I could SWEAR tinkerbell used to fly on, draw the Disney logo, dot the i and then fly off before the movie begins. But nope, it never happened.
I remember that too, but it was extremely uncommon. So maybe there's one or two movies that do it, maybe not. I'd look into straight to video movies as well, maybe it was there.
I definitely remember it as Berenstein Bears and I also remember Shazam...Kazam wasn't something i saw until i was an adult. There are a lot of us that came from whatever universe that was.
You just blew my mind by saying that Shazaam never happened! I totally had to pause, rewind, and do research! I swear to God that I remember watching a movie called Shazaam with Sinbad as a genie, and laughing how bad both Shazaam and Kazaam were. WHAT. THE. FUCK!
phone7x7 Yep, pretty much. Our memories are very malleable and open to suggestion. I'm taking courses for a BS in psychology, and we were recently talking about faulty memory in my human cognition class. People can be very confident in, and remember vividly, things that never happened. Pretty interesting.
It does. In fact, our brains don't actually "see" perfectly in real time either. Our brains make shit up all the time to fill in gaps, see patterns and generally make sense of anything that doesn't.
Yes our brains do this. However the thing with the Mandela Effect is it's hundreds of thousands of people around the world that remember something falsely. Which is harder to attribute to false memory. Until the Internet was widely available we would have noticed this before as we couldn't have shared our conflicting memories.
YouFoolWarrenIsDead What do you mean? Lots of substances have effects on your memory - alcohol is probably the biggest. Hallucinogens fall into 3 classes - psychedelics, dissociatives, and deliriants; they're all very different. Psychedelics are what most people think of, and in terms of visuals, typically just involve visual distortions, etc., and the person knows what's happening isn't real (LSD, mescaline, etc.). Deliriants, on the other hand, are often essentially poisons, and can lead to truly seeing things that aren't there; the person often doesn't know what they're experiencing isn't real (diphenhydramine, Datura, etc.). That's just some background and examples, since I don't know what you mean. Dissociatives (PCP, Ketamine, Dextromethorphan) can affect one's memory, though, as can deliriants (or, it's likely, at least).
I had this with Jurassic Park. as far as my memory goes: I remember the T-rex busting through the roof at the end to eat the Velociraptors. I found a website some years earlier with people that claim to see the same thing but can't find it now. Everything points to me having a faulty memory of this but yet it feels so strong.
It has always been "No, I am your father." I believe the misconception came from the fact that Vader says "Luke!" a lot during the whole convo, but doesn't say it there.
Can anybody here answer why Jim Carey quoted "HELLO CLARICE" in The Cable Guy if that line was never spoken in The Silence of the Lambs?????.. Anyone??
Interestingly enough, while Looney Tunes does have the "tunes" spelling, Tiny Toon Adventures doesn't. I do wonder whether or not that was a mistake by the creators due to mis-remembering of the spelling.
I remember many years ago at the end of the SpongeBob episode The Bully, after Mrs. Puff yells "I'm gonna kick your butt!" at the end, SpongeBob screams and runs out again. I remember it clearly and whenever the episode rerun I was like "where'd that part go?"
Alien (1979) I saw the original on betamax video tape, when Lambert the women is killed, the alien puts his tail between her legs you see her feet & the aliens tail and I also remember her pissing herself & it flowing down her leg because of the fear, I have never seen that ever again on any format.
Movies are weird because different versions can, indeed, be different in inexplicable ways. Even television shows get odd alterations when being rebroadcast.
FYI, both Marvel AND DC have characters named Captain Marvel that are getting movies in 2019. DC later changed their character's comic to being called Shazam to avoid confusion.
The batman scene was wahl picking it up and it showz his face the scene was in the theaters just like joker sitting up at the end after the credits but not in the video release
The most undeniable movie Mandela Effect is from Moonraker.. Dolly 100% had braces.. that is what that whole scene was about..if you're not familiar with this one go look up it up..
In the movie "Ten Things I Hate About You", I distinctly remember what I considered, for years, to be one of the funniest gags in the movie: While trying to walk the walk to win the affections of Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger is informed of the health hazards of smoking. Later, at a bar/pool hall-type hangout, one of his friends offers him a cigarette and he declines, explaining, "No thanks, I found out they're bad for you." "Really?" the friend responds with complete sincerity, then throws the whole pack away in disgust. Absurdly, somehow, these two had gone their whole lives naive to the knowledge that cigarettes were unhealthy, and as soon as they were clued in, they stopped. That moment always felt so clever and original, to me. But a decade later, I re-watched the movie to discover no such gag existed. The scene was there, but all that happened was: she offers him a cigarette and he says, "No thanks."
People swore that facial animations in 2017 would be extremely advanced and realistic, but when you look it up.... none of that ever seem to have happened.... o_O
"Elementary, my dear Watson" is never actually said in the books. As well as "Play it again, Sam" (from Casablanca). It's just an example of something like one media outlet misquoting the movie and from there everybody picked it up and overblew it to worldwide proportions.
I always knew it was Looney Tunes, thanks to my Dad. He is one big fan of the animated shorts and loved to point out those things. Warner Bros. Looney Tunes was to sort of parody/rival Disney's Silly Symphonies. WB also had Merrie Melodies too. All music related to the titles. If I remember right MM had a more Disney feel to it and LT was straight up, well, Looney.
I have a very distinct false memory of the Xbox/Ps2 game of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I remember after fighting the ring wraiths on weathertop I kept dying because I'd been poisoned from bat bites and had no healing items, so I had to give up the game. I replayed the game many years later only to find that there are no bats in the game, or poison for that matter. Shit's crazy.
When I was a kid, the TV network broadcasted a kids show called "Kloak" ("Sewer"). It was about this guy who was trapped in the sewers under Stockholm, because there had been an transdimensional-alien invasion of the sewers. The Aliens had managed to capture Time itself in the Sewer and they would never grow old and never die. And the show was about this guy and some kids trying to defeat those Aliens. It was epic and awesome, kinda like a swedish Dr Who. And APPARENTLY I was the only one watching it! No one in my age remembers it!
I remember seeing Disney's Aladdin as a kid in the movie theatre. Distinctly, I remember seeing the genie's lamp crumbling at the end. When we got the VHS of it, the scene was completely different; nothing like that happens to it. I thought, maybe, it was an alternate cut of the movie. I believed that for decades. About a year ago, I saw The Duck Tales movie, where that exact thing happens to that genie's lamp. Turns out I combined the two "freeing the Genie" scenes from those two movies. I guess my brain just works like WinZip and combines common elements from movies. Just like when Bruce Willis saved the world in Deep Impact...
Speaking about Batman: I do remember that scene when a gotham citizen unfolded a dollar bill a saw the Joker face on it and ever since I also watch it when its on TV hopping to see that scene. Also, I remember when Gordon discovers what its laughing from the dead Joker it a little bag, I remember gordon opens the bag and find out a little red thing makin the laugh sound. Please tell me there is others out there that also remember this
Since when has editing ever made sense? In that case the actual product may have not been credited, in which case technically you shouldn't use it in a major scene.. either that or revealing the gag might be against the product's advertising rules. It's kind of why you see people using "COLA" in movies because real products have rules.
also shows why witnesses cant be fully trusted as far as their testimony. why the memory of an incident should never be used as the central piece of evidence in a trial.
I have one of my own, from a video game. Anyone familiar with the game _Alley Cat_ on the Atari800? As a kid, I could have sworn that I somehow crossed over to some other level, some completely different house, with different graphics and everything. My then-best friend even said to me something about "that weird house". But it never happened again! And I could never make it happen again either! I remembered it so well for a long time, and it must have been some kind of secret, but nothing I looked up online made any reference to it at all. Did I imagine it?! Including my friend talking about it? What the hell was it?? It couldn't have been just graphics glitches, because I'm pretty sure it looked like a house. I know this is really obscure, but if anyone could help out with my own personal video game Mandela Effect experience, I'd like to know.
I never had this memory but many people remember the Tom hanks film "big" having an alternate ending with Elizabeth Perkins wishing to be a kid again and being introduced as a new student in hank's school. in the actual ending, she just drops him off at his house, he turns back into a kid as he walks toward his house, looks at her one last time, she smiles at him and then drives away.
There was an experiment done a few years back where people's brains were being scanned very in-depth while they were looking at a few different images. A computer program tried to not only tell what image they were looking at, but recreate the image based on brain activity. One that really struck me was an image of a bird flying through the air. However, the background would be different depending on who they were scanning (blue sky, clouds, a forest), and the bird was even in a different perspective for one of the subjects. Just shows that even as we are watching something, our brain is already filling in unimportant details, sometimes completely synthesizing them.
Shazam is the alternate name of the DC character Captain Marvel. The 2019 movie titled Captain Marvel is based off of the Marvel character of the same name, whereas the Shazam movie is based on the DC character. Confusing as fuck, I know.
I remember a scene in "The Wizard of Oz" where Dorithy finally wakes up at the end of the movie to see her family waiting for her regain consciousness as well as a doctor. When Dorithy comes to she says, "I had the strangest dream... and you were there and you were there." I remember her pointing to the doctor and saying "I never seen you before." Now that line is gone.
Happens that way in Rocko's Modern Life. Joe Murray, the show's creator is there for no reason and Rocko says, "...and you i've never seen before." Joe replies, "You're off model Kangaroo boy."
For the longest time I thought it was "Donkey Kong Country 2 Diddy Kong's Quest" but it's actually "Donkey Kong Country 2 Diddy's Kong Quest" I felt so stupid after figuring that out, and I know I'm not the only one.
The Red Guy I remember thinking this for about a year back in the 90s. Diddy's Kong Quest is a much better name though. Not only is he on a Quest to find a Kong, it's also a play on Conquest. And that's fun.
The Red Guy It was actually intended to be named "Diddy Kong's Quest". But they changed it before release. I still remember the screenshot with the old title in a Nintendo magazine back then.
Man, James, I'm really admirative about your collections. Video Games, movies, all set up in awesome rooms. That's what I love about american houses, basements ! Here in France all we have is creepy caves where you can't do shit but store wine bottles... which is cool in a way but is not as cool as collection rooms ! Cheers from Europe !
Looney Tunes threw me for a loop too. Not because of a faulty memory, I just wasn't sure. Now that I think about it, it works perfectly since it's paired up with Merrie Melodies.
One day when I was walking down the street I tripped and fell and some guy helped pick me back up. I though I had my wallet with me, but when I got home I didn't have it
The spelling of Looney Tunes has always made sense to me due to the context of the similar Silly Symphonies and Merry Melodies series. I would question whether "toon" was even in popular use before Roger Rabbit, obviously years after the old Bugs Bunny stuff came into fruition.
One very common example I've seen is a false moment from Return of the Jedi: when the Ewok with the hang glider crashes to the ground, many (myself included) distinctly remember that, immediately after crashing, he is also crushed flat by an AT-ST walker- but in fact he does not! However, this one has a pretty easy explanation: a walker DOES appear directly above him, and for a brief moment it looks like its foot COULD come crashing straight down onto his head, but instead it touches down on the ground behind him. Most likely our childhood selves saw the foot about to drop, briefly feared that we were about to see him squished, and later remembered the fear more easily than the real happening.
Roth Sothy I've seen it on TV so many times over the years but only once when I was younger did I see the octopus scene. it may have TBS or something too young at the time to remember. It was definitely a TV cut tho.
Much like you, James, I used to make movies when I was young. It is the most damning, humiliating, and mind-blowing experience to look back at my old videos and see that they are different from how I remember. I made them, dammit! You mean the words and inflections I use to describe the videos to my friends aren't at all how I said them in the original? It's maddening.
Nation of Masturbation As much as I think the ME is a thing, I believe this dark tip only happens in an episode where Maggie turns into Pikachu for about 2 seconds and the tip of her tail is dark.
That's because his ears have dark tips on them, so we assume his other appendage does as well. Honestly, all this "Mandela effect" stuff is rather reasonable.
I remember watching that South Park episode about Wal-Mart, and my Dad and I distinctly remember Randy saying "Prices...too low...can't go on." Never seen it since.
I remember vividly in the episode of Batman TAS Christmas with the Joker Batman says "my turn" after the Joker throws a pie in his face. I watched it recently and he didn't say anything it was just an awkward pause
I 100% remember there being a promo add for Curious George where he was swinging by his tail. I remember watching a episode from when i was young and he definitely had a tail.
When I was younger I watched my Dad play the start of RE4, and I distinctly remember the game opening up with Leon going into a large, two story house at night time during autumn. Inside, the player is attacked by that enemy with the chainsaw and the sack over their head, triggering a QTE in which the player jumps onto the chainsaw, then out the window, breaking the glass. Fast forward to when I finally played the game myself earlier this year, and that scene is instead in the village, with one of the random locals on the ground floor instead. There was even the same dialogue of trying to talk to the villager before being attacked, except instead of a QTE, it went straight into regular gameplay.
Red Letter just did a re-view of Demolition man and I found out the the UK used Pizza Hut instead of Taco Bell, so some people remember Demolition Man different.
The thing about Joker's face being on the money: I have previously heard that the Joker's face is totally on the money in that scene. You're most likely right.
DutchBondFan This is one of those ME's that actually makes more sense the way we remember it (Dolly having braces) than the way it currently is. At least that episode of the Simpsons where comic book guy gets swooned by a girl with braces seems to think so.
Yeah, the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts started off as comedic musicals before branching out to just comedy in general hence the 'Tunes' spelling, but several decades later Tiny Toons came along and they switched up the spelling for it.
I think it's just monkeys have tails. So obviously he had a tail. Many of these seem like false standardizations. The spelling of Berenstein vs. Berenstain is because in most names ending with -stein/-stain we see the former. Thus we unconsciously mash them together.
It's actually surprisingly easy to implant false memories. There was a study years ago where they did a survey with people who had visited Disneyland and asked them if they had seen Bugs Bunny. Many people responded that they had. Except that Bugs Bunny is not a Disney character. The thing is, our brains process real and false memories exactly the same way. That is, a false memory will feel exactly like a real one. We all have false memories, and there's no real way to verify internally that a memory is real or false.
I dont like much if any of the cereal I liked as a kid. I think around 13-14 (2003-2004) is when the health nuts started forcing them to make it all healthier changing the ingredients. Not because I grew out of it.
